South Buffalo Land Use Concepts to be Unveiled
Planning for the South Buffalo Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) is progressing. Over the past nine months, the City of Buffalo has undertaken an in-depth analysis of approximately 1,900 acres of strategically located brownfields, underutilized properties as well as industrial and open spaces in South Buffalo.
On Wednesday, December 3rd, the City will present to the public and stakeholders the various land use options for the study area. It will be held at the Buffalo Irish Center, 245 Abbott Road. The event includes an open house from 5:30 to 6:30 pm, a presentation from 6:30 to 7:15 pm, and a workshop from 7:15 to 8:30 pm.
Working with a consultant team, land use options for the study area have been prepared. The City is seeking public input in making critical choices as a master plan for the area is created. The project is crucial to the city's future, and important for charting the reclamation and redevelopment of these valuable lands.
The South Buffalo BOA was recently among one of three projects designated a Brownfields Smart Growth Spotlight Community by Governor David A. Paterson and Secretary of State Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez. This important designation links the BOA to the Governor’s Smart Growth Cabinet, strengthening State support for future implementation efforts.
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the_trooper
That picture at the top includes Tift Nature Preserve and South Park. Those locations aren't up for development are they?
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STEEL
Please include a major park connection from South Park to the Tift Farm. It makes so much sense to connect South Buffalo directly to the water front. Of course since it makes sense if will not be done but we can hope can't we.
By the way, that was Olmsted's original plan for this area but our civic leaders could not see the wisdom in using the water edge for recreation. I bet they were laughing at Chicago back in the day. Now who is laughing.
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UrbanGuy
more than that trooper....there's tifft, the gardens, the park where certainteed went, all that rail....the only thing left is that park on the river that was announced to be developed. That's it...unless I'm missing something?
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peripatetic
Steel you've got Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park (Union Ship Canal). That was the was the opportunity the city would not consider to create a great waterfront park as Olmsted envisioned..
This is another half assed analysis. The city told the consultant to not consider the land west of route 5 - lakefront. Duh? How do you analyze this land w/o the lakefront?
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sonyactivision
How cleaned up and abated is this area? It looks pretty rough. I think some cleaning is in order so the dreaming can begin.
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sbrof
I don't mean to be a debi downer but this area has had at least two major plans done in the recent past... The olmsted parks conservancy has some ideas for this area as an expansion to their current park and parkway system. The City of Buffalo Planning Department came up with a SB plan years back, The Queen City Waterfront talks about and describes this area................... The list goes on and on and on.
Lets be honest here about this. No one is going to touch this land as long as it stays polluted and disconnected. It might as well be in texas, no one knows how to get to it or what is possible once there.
The sad part about this whole thing is the Queen City Waterfront plan, paid and done for BY THE CITY... was done specifically to stop excess planning from happening. The whole premise of the plan was to organize, prioritize and actually start FUNDING existing ideas. We don't NEED to plan this area.... This is coming from someone who has their masters in Urban Planning.
All this does is scream how disconnected the Brown Administration is from everything that he didn't appoint. A lot of work was done, the council approved the plan. Sigh. Brown and his group refuse to work on anyone's idea but their own. If they didn't come up with it.. throw it out and start over.
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david
I've spent a good deal of time exploring and photographing this part of Buffalo with artists and photographers from Berlin to San Francisco. Really amazing space. The industrial landscape is fading away and the last remaining physical elements of this place - a place that is so infused with the City's ethos and industrial past and promise - are being reduced to dust or shipped off to China as scrap, right now. Globally there are same amazing models out there including Emscher Park in Germany that could be embraced here and now when thinking about this space and planning its future use.
Cool graphic from an earlier planning moment involving this space. Do a google flyover and get out there and start poking around.
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david
oops...here's the link to a larger image -right here.
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